Script: RED EARTH, MOTHER'S HANDS

As an unexplained illness threatens her life, a Zimbabwean American educator must reconnect with her ancestral homeland and the memory of her mother to reclaim her strength and sense of belonging.
Content Note: This work contains themes of grief, illness, ancestral memory, and emotional loss.

Writer: U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo

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Script: EXCISION

In a rural Kenyan village, where a girl's worth is measured by tradition, a mother and daughter grapple with the consequences of a rite of passage rooted in female genital mutilation, while wrestling with questions of womanhood, motherhood, and the cost of belonging.

Content Advisory: This play contains themes and discussions related to female genital mutilation (FGM), infertility, reproductive trauma, grief, and emotional distress. While acts of violence are not depicted graphically on stage, the subject matter may be upsetting to some audience members.

Writer: Uche Iheukwumere

Actors (for both scripts):

• Alexandria King

• Chioniso Sarah Jakazi

• Joshua Olumide

• Megan Dilworth

• Parmie Polk

DAILY SCRIPT READS HAPPEN EVERY WEEKDAY FROM THURSDAY, JUNE 18 - TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2026 FROM 12:00 - 1:00PM EST ON ZOOM.

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Script: GYM WARS

A middle-aged single mom turned soul-food café waitress gets a second chance at life when she enters a local fitness competition, leaning on her imaginary friend Tiffany Haddish, a washed-up Olympic trainer, and a crew of oddball gym pals to overcome self-doubt and unite her community.

Writer: Anike Tourse

Actors:

• Anike Tourse

• Christopher James

• Doctor Mikael Powell

• Sonya Joyner

• Y'Dhanna Daniels

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Script: NOT A SINNER

After a betrayal from the one person who made her feel she belonged, Alivia, a shy girl at a prestigious Catholic school, must choose between speaking a difficult truth or finding comfort in the faith that has always been her refuge.

Trigger Warnings: This script contains themes of sexual harassment, institutional power imbalance.

Writer: Angel Tonia

Actors:

• Anjie Parker

• Alexandria King

• Ariel Coleman

• Brandon Scales

• Chris Everett

• Daniel Callahan

• Emanuel Gomes

• Khai Tyler

DAILY SCRIPT READS HAPPEN EVERY WEEKDAY FROM THURSDAY, JUNE 18 - TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2026 FROM 12:00 - 1:00PM EST ON ZOOM.

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Script: IN MEMORIAM

Can true love last even after we're gone? Just ask the dead lady, she'll tell you.

Writer: Louis Johnson

Actors:

• Anjie Parker

• Ashley Aldarondo

• Carmen Fields

• Darline Harris

• Jamal Perkins

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Script: TORTURED SOUL

A woman is broken by the loss of her soulmate, and while trying to heal, she is forced to constantly relive the moments leading up to his death.

Trigger Warnings: Death, harsh family dynamics, foul language, grief, and mental health

Writer: Anjie Parker

Actors:

• Andrea Lyman

• Aria Jamila

• Jade Guerra

• Juvan Elisma

• Lorraine Victoria Kanyike

• Nicholas Papyoanoe

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Script: FREEMAN GHOSTS

A rag-tag family of ghost “freers” show us a day in the life of their workshop, while sharing the history of their team freeing ancestral ghosts.

GENRE: Comedy/Horror Mockumentary

Writer: Hakim Hill

Actors:

• Chris Everett

• Dashaun Knight-Barkley

• Jackie Davis

• Juvan Elisma

• Keith Mascoll

• Odis Spencer

• Paul Benford-Bruce

DAILY SCRIPT READS HAPPEN EVERY WEEKDAY FROM THURSDAY, JUNE 18 - TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2026 FROM 12:00 - 1:00PM EST ON ZOOM.

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Script: BEFORE I GO

BEFORE I GO follows a grieving son as he prepares for, what should be, the happiest day of his life. Despite his father's best efforts to calm his anxiety, an unspoken secret threatens to tear them apart.

Writers: William Roebuck and Anthony J. Davis

Actors:

• Brandon Scales

• Keith Mascoll

• Lonnie Farmer

• Ricardo Guillaume

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Script: ARTIFICE

An immigrant Uber driver who is facing deportation because he cannot afford to pay his lawyer, finds a drastic solution to his problems when he picks up an Art dealer who just flew back from his country of origin with valuable artifacts. 

Writer: Barry

Actors:

• Christopher James

• Emanuel Gomes

• Jacobite McFee

• Janine Robinson

• JD Davis

• John Grigorladis

• Joshua Olumide

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Script: GAVIN, C.R.S.A.

A covert operative juggling therapy, career ambition, and romance discovers that being truly seen may be the deadliest risk of all.

Writer: Jake Maida Vale

Actors:

• Ashley Aldarondo

• Andrea Lyman

• Jamal Perkins

• Maria Wilkins

• Rafael Silva

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